In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sulochona Chaudhuri
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>Who is "Tom in Belgium" - I have heard mention of his name before as an
>excellant supplier of B'berg and Branscombe tapes
Tom Deleenheer is, or was, managing director of:
Louise Verschueren, Real Belgian Lace Manufa
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From: "Jane Partridge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> That of course, was before I
> did my train (see Canadian Lacemaker Gazette, Vol 15 Mo.3 (Spring 2001))
> and ended up making most of the tapes with cloth stitch bo
I found that using the Branscombe tape available in the UK (through
Hornsby's or Tim Parker)
I must male a correction to a previous comment of mine about tapes in the
USA. I had seen only the plain Battenberg tapes when I wrote. Then
immediately, it seemed, I was browsing on the pages for Lacem
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jean Barrett
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> Branscombe
>Tape is narrower and finer, and has no gathering thread along the
>edges. You have to either ease the tape round corners or put in a
>gathering thread yourself.
In the Branscombe technique, you tack the tape t
Good morning All,
One of the things that nobody seems to have mentioned in the
Branscombe/Battenburg saga is that, from what I have seen, Branscombe
Tape is narrower and finer, and has no gathering thread along the
edges. You have to either ease the tape round corners or put in a
gathering thre
Hi Liz -
I agree with you that Branscombe Point and Battenberg are
different, and you're right that there is more variety in
the fillings. My impression is that Pranscombe Point lace
is more compactly filled, and that the tapes tend to be
narrower, giving an overall appearance of a more refined
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